Unfortunately our community college is trying to become another unneeded 4 year school and they’re behaving like one. The first thing she has to do is take an orientation course so she can learn to juggle college and social life. She’s nearly 50 years old and hasn’t had or needed a social life in decades. The orientation course requires several school specific books that will cost hundreds of dollars.
And wait until graduation, and you’ll get such pomp and circumstance you’d think you were at Yale! I think the administrators are really doing it for their own egos.
There is also a trend to remove the “Community” from the name, so it becomes East Podunk College.
You have to understand that the insert process for the desire to change the name of these institutions.
I will give you a couple of local examples
Community College of the Finger Lakes, it was changed by the locals to Community College For Losers
Monroe Community College was Monroe Comedy College
Onondaga Community College became Only Chance College. I attended here as an undergrad before going to Cornell. I will never forget one day I go into the can. While on the throne someone had scratched into the stall above the toilet paper roll...OCC diplomas. Take one.
The possibilities nationwide are beyond comprehension. The problem for these facilities is that they were named by politicians. When naming things, politicians are sooo stupid and never plan for how things will get twisted in general usage.
But nearly all of the community colleges have gotten mission creep and fancied themselves as a stepping stone to a four year institution. Which is what I used it for, and never graduated from the CC, just took the pile of transferable credits and went on with my academic career. Saved me and my parents a bucket of cash, but the overall graduation rate for the CC was probably not good, as my degree completion did not reflect in their stats although it should have because without the CC would have never made it to where I ended up.